Warnings and Precautions For Those Considering Submitting Their Cases For The Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission of S. Korea (TRC 3).
Posted to Paperslip on January 21st, 2026.
Above — The perils of pursuing justice.
There is a very real IMPERFECT STORM going on now about which Korean Adoptees — especially U.S. Korean Adoptees — should be aware.
For the past several years, Korean Adoption has been a prominent topic in international media, both in South Korea and in the Western countries to which South Korea sent thousands of Adoptees —including the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia. Documentaries and investigative news articles have generated an unprecedented level of global awareness around the topic of Korean Adoption. As a result, many Korean Adoptees have been forced “out of the fog,” confronting long-suppressed and deeply uncomfortable truths about the Korean Adoption industry in ways that have never before occurred on such a global scale.
The Second Truth and Reconciliation Commission of S. Korea (TRC 2), which ran from 2020-2025, was the first TRC to investigate overseas adoption. 367 Korean Adoptees submitted their cases to TRC 2 starting in 2022, but only 56 received judgments by TRC 2 by its conclusion, leaving 311 cases suspended.
The Third Truth and Reconciliation Commission of S. Korea (TRC 3) is likely to begin sometime in 2026, pending approval through S. Korea’s National Assembly (S. Korea’s version of the U.S. Congress).
During these unprecedented and turbulent political times in the U.S., we feel that U.S. Adoptees who are considering submitting their cases for TRC 3 have the RIGHT TO BE INFORMED about the relevant dangers associated with participating in the TRC 3 process, and with submitting your private, sensitive adoption documents to the U.S. and Danish (and other international) *KRG (Korean Rights Group) organizations which are the primary organizers of Korean Adoptee submissions to TRC 3. Please read the links below carefully to understand why we believe that you should carefully consider whether or not you should submit your case to TRC 3, if it begins in 2026.
Please note that the primary group organizing the TRC 3 submissions by Korean Adoptees is DKRG (Danish Korean Rights Group), which ultimately controls all of the other *KRG groups. DKRG “leaders” strongly desire to be in the press, and will doubtlessly push aggressively to have more stories surrounding Korean Adoption related issues pushed into international media from 2026 forward. Please consider what this may mean in the current U.S. political context.
U.S. Korean Adoptees are being strongly encouraged to share highly sensitive, private information for the TRC 3 process at precisely the moment when they should be most careful about with whom they share it. We urge you to take our warnings seriously. For the past three years, we have had firsthand experience with how DKRG “leaders” treat Korean Adoptees — including documented patterns of poor conduct, blocking, and ghosting Adoptees who have active TRC cases and who have already submitted their adoption documents to DKRG. DKRG ultimately controls the U.S.-based *KRG organization: USKRG.